Improvement in pattern-marked fabrics for garments



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W. O. LAWSON.

Pattern Marked Fabrics for Garments.

No. 206,584. Patented July 30,1878.

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- 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. C. LAWSON.

Pattern Marked Fabrics for Garments.

No.'206,5 84. Patented July 30.1878.

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\VILLIAM C. LAY-VSON, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PATTERN-MARKED FABRICS FOR GARMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,584, dated July 230, N79; application filed September 25, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. Lawson, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Pattern-Marked Fabric, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a piece of fabric with the patterns for cutting out a shirt or other garment marked thereon. Fig. 2 represents a similar view of a section of a piece of cloth, the exterior lines for cutting out all the pieces necessary for ashirt of any one of several different sizes being marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to furnish to the public, as a new and useful article of manufacture and commerce, linen, muslin, or other fabrics that are marked throughout the entire piece with the patterns for cutting out shirts or other g. rments of different sizes, so that the same may be cut from the piece in sections for a garment and sold to the public, for dispensing thereby with the paper patterns hitherto used for laying off the patterns on the fabric, and producing thus a convenient and labor-saving article with little extra expense.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A representsa continuous piece of any suitable fabric, as linen, muslin, woolen cloth, 820., according to the garments to be made therefrom. The piece is marked throughout its entire length with the patternlines of shirts, drawers, or any other garment, preferably in colors that wash out easily after the garment is made up.

The patterns B are arranged with a view to an economical use of the fabric, and so that the different patterns belonging to one shirt or garment take up such a size or length that a piece having the patterns for a single or more garments may be cut off separately orin any number, to be used directly for cutting out and making up the garment without any extra preparation or marking by paper patterns. The patterns are marked or printed on the fabric preparatory to their being packed for storage and shipment, so that the expense of marking may be reduced to the smallest possible amount. Different sizes of shirt or garment patterns are marked in sections on one piece of goods, or graduated or variable patterns placed on one piece, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The convenience of furnishing in this manner from the fabric pieces of any required length for two or more shirts, so that the same may be out without loss of time, will make the pattern-marked fabrics a salable article, as seamstrcsses and others will quickly avail themselves of the time and labor-saving advantages furnishcd by the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Putcnt A web of fabric having printed thereon in sections the exterior lines of all the parts necessary to the manufacture of a garment of any one of two or more different sizes, substantiall y as shown and described.

\VILLIAM G. LAWSON.

\Vitncsses PAUL GOEPEL, 'l. B. Mosunu. 

